Michael Clarke lists out 'major, major mistakes' committed by Australia on India

Australias wretched run on the tour of India so far has been filled with major major mistakes reckons former captain Michael ClarkeClarke feels the biggest mistake Australia made was not playing a tour game ahead of the four Test series that began February 9Instead Pat Cummins chose to simulate Indian conditions back home before having a short camp near Bengaluru ahead of the series opener in NagpurTwo weeks later the visitors are 02 down in the series and have already lost a shot at regaining the BorderGavaskar trophyIm not surprised by what Im seeing because we didnt have a tour game Major major major mistake There should have been at least one game over there to get used to the conditions Clarke said on Monday on Big Sports BreakfastThe Australian batters inability to play topquality spin has been thoroughly expose in the first two TestsIn Delhi they tried to sweep their way out of trouble but that ploy failed miserably Apart from that another major mistake according to Clarke was not playing Travis Head in the series openerThe southpaw topscored for Australia in the second innings with a 43 off 46 balls before his team collapsed to 113 all out It was also the first time he opened in TestsSelection for the first Test major major mistake Second Test blokes sweeping we saw enough of that the first Test match Theyre not the right conditions to sweep when you start your innings And theyre never going to be the right conditions to reverse sweep against the spin at the start of your innings said ClarkeHalf of the side fell to sweep or reverse sweep on a track with low bounceIt doesnt matter how many support staff there are around youre playing for Australia Surely as a batsman playing at the highest level you calculate that risk versus rewardAgainst spin bowling on a pitch like that you would say my swim between the flags is play straight hit with spinLets just stick to those two theories Straight bat Im going to be playing every single ball with the spin said ClarkeHe also added that Australia should have learned from India on how to bat in spinfriendly conditionsAlso readBorderGavaskar Trophy Australia skipper Pat Cummins flies back home due to family illnessIts like were not watching India bat he said Why would you not look at that example and go OK these guys know the conditions so well and this is how theyre playing Why would we try and do something different when they have been so goodThe game was there for us to win if we make 200 and we were 160 he said referring to the dramatic batting collapse with Australia losing nine wickets for 52 runsIndia needed to chase down 115 and they did that with six wickets in hand Clarke also questioned Pat Cummins field placements on SundayIm not sure what happened with our tactics We had just 100 runs on the boardAt one stage Patty Cummins had four blokes on the boundary Theres 2frac12 days left in the Test match Youre either bowling India out for under a hundred or youre losing one or the otherIf you lose in 20 overs or you lose in two days its irrelevant So fielders get up batpad off side batpad leg side If the ball turns if the ball bounces if the ball shoots along the ground if you make an error in judgment you are getting outThats what Australia had to do with the ball I know its only a tiny run lead but we had to still try and win the game and we had midoff back midon back deep point deep square leg What was I watchingThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever